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Kotlin greatly reduces source code verbosity. With Google having announced its support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time to learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin
Kotlin greatly reduces source code verbosity. With Google having announced its support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time to learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin
The Applied Kotlin for Android Application Development course is for developers who have some experience in the basics of Kotlin and are ready to take the plunge into the more advanced stage. This course covers Kotlin's superpowers, as it were. You should already know the syntax, but now we will go over the things that make Kotlin stand out—such as inline functions and null safety.You will learn about Anko, a Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read and smoothes out the rough edges in the Android SDK for Java. You will also publish the app you built during the course to get an overall end-to-end experience of Kotlin Android application development.
By the end of this course, you will have gained experience in creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.
About the Author
Yusuf Saber is an Android developer with over 5 years' professional experience. Yusuf earned his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Ryerson University in 2011 and started his career as a .NET developer before quickly turning to Android. He has worked on a large range of Android apps, from social to multimedia to B2B and more.
In this video, we will explore functions in Kotlin and learn more about higher order functions.
The aim of the video is to understand how we overcome the shortcomings of higher order functions by inlining the parameters.
This video introduces the concept of interface in Kotlin and also explains how we can implement an interface with an example.
Unlike Java, in Kotlin we can declare properties in interface. This video helps us to understand how to add properties to an interface and accessing them.
The aim of the video to understand what is implementation by delegation in Kotlin and how we can override the interface members.
In Kotlin, we can implement a certain kind of properties only once and put them in a library. This video explains the concept using property and lazy delegates.
When a fixed set of constants are required in Kotlin, we can use enum. This video helps us to understand how to initialize enum classes in Kotlin and working with enum constants.
In this video, we will learn about the library Anko and how it can help us build apps more easily.
In this video, we will learn how to create Intents in a less verbose way than normal.
In this video, we will learn a simple way to show dialogs and toasts using Anko.
In this video, we will learn how to incorporate flexible logging into our app using Anko.
In this video, we will show how to use AsyncTask in Kotlin, and how to use bg() which is much simpler.
In this video, we will learn how to create a signed APK of our app and publish it to Google Play.
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